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EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is from 2005. Christoph Schönborn is editor of the most recently issued Catechism of the Catholic Church and member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Roman Catholic Cardinal Endorses Zionism

A Roman Catholic cardinal says European Christians’ support for Israel is not based on Holocaust guilt and Christians should affirm Zionism as biblical.

(Washington Post, Mar. 31 2005) Jerusalem, Israel — Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, part of a visiting Austrian delegation, made the remarks in an address Wednesday at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Post reported Thursday.

Schoenborn said it was doctrinally important for Christians to recognize Jews’ connection to the “Holy Land” and Christians should rejoice in Jews’ return to Palestine as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy.

He also said Pope John Paul II had himself declared the biblical commandment for Jews to live in Israel an everlasting covenant that remained valid today.

When a Palestinian priest asked Schoenborn if the creation of the modern state of Israel was not an expression of Europe’s guilt over the Holocaust, the cardinal said it was not.

A cardinal considered a candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II delivered a strong message in favor of Jewish settlement in the Holy Land on Wednesday night, rejecting the claim that European Christians’ support for the State of Israel is based on Holocaust guilt and saying that all Christians should affirm Zionism as a biblical imperative for the Jewish people.

Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, part of a visiting Austrian delegation, made the remarks in an address at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the topic of “God’s chosen land.”

After asking, “What does Eretz Yisrael [the Land of Israel] mean to us,” Schoenborn answered by stressing the doctrinal importance to Christians of not only recognizing Jews’ connection to the land, but also ensuring that Christian identification with the Jewish Bible not lead to a “usurpation” of Jewish uniqueness.

“Only once in human history did God take a country as an inheritance and give it to His chosen people,” Schoenborn said, adding that Pope John Paul II had himself declared the biblical commandment for Jews to live in Israel an everlasting covenant that remained valid today. Christians, Schoenborn said, should rejoice in the return of Jews to the Holy Land as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.

A Palestinian priest challenged the cardinal on that point, asking how he could preach to his Palestinian congregation that the establishment of the modern Jewish state was not a “catastrophe,” as they called it, or the result of European powers’ guilty conscience following World War II.

Schoenborn responded by saying that “I am myself a refugee” – at the end of World War II, when he was an infant, Schoenborn’s parents fled to Austria from Czechoslovakia – and that he felt pained at the unrecognized injustice that thousands of Czechs had suffered. However, he said, both that case and the Arab-Israeli conflict were matters of international law, whereas the chosenness of the Jewish people and their inheritance in the Holy Land were matters of faith that date back to the Bible itself.

Schoenborn also said he hoped the conflict here would be resolved in accordance with international law, and with respect to justice for the Palestinian people. “We are all longing for that solution,” he said. “Yet I am not naive. Conflicts are part of [both sides’] love of the land, and always have been… There is no simple solution.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is from 2005. Christoph Schönborn is editor of the most recently issued Catechism of the Catholic Church and member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Roman Catholic Cardinal Endorses Zionism

A Roman Catholic cardinal says European Christians’ support for Israel is not based on Holocaust guilt and Christians should affirm Zionism as biblical.

(Washington Post, Mar. 31 2005) Jerusalem, Israel — Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, part of a visiting Austrian delegation, made the remarks in an address Wednesday at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Post reported Thursday.

Schoenborn said it was doctrinally important for Christians to recognize Jews’ connection to the “Holy Land” and Christians should rejoice in Jews’ return to Palestine as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy.

He also said Pope John Paul II had himself declared the biblical commandment for Jews to live in Israel an everlasting covenant that remained valid today.

When a Palestinian priest asked Schoenborn if the creation of the modern state of Israel was not an expression of Europe’s guilt over the Holocaust, the cardinal said it was not.

A cardinal considered a candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II delivered a strong message in favor of Jewish settlement in the Holy Land on Wednesday night, rejecting the claim that European Christians’ support for the State of Israel is based on Holocaust guilt and saying that all Christians should affirm Zionism as a biblical imperative for the Jewish people.

Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, part of a visiting Austrian delegation, made the remarks in an address at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the topic of “God’s chosen land.”

After asking, “What does Eretz Yisrael [the Land of Israel] mean to us,” Schoenborn answered by stressing the doctrinal importance to Christians of not only recognizing Jews’ connection to the land, but also ensuring that Christian identification with the Jewish Bible not lead to a “usurpation” of Jewish uniqueness.

“Only once in human history did God take a country as an inheritance and give it to His chosen people,” Schoenborn said, adding that Pope John Paul II had himself declared the biblical commandment for Jews to live in Israel an everlasting covenant that remained valid today. Christians, Schoenborn said, should rejoice in the return of Jews to the Holy Land as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.

A Palestinian priest challenged the cardinal on that point, asking how he could preach to his Palestinian congregation that the establishment of the modern Jewish state was not a “catastrophe,” as they called it, or the result of European powers’ guilty conscience following World War II.

Schoenborn responded by saying that “I am myself a refugee” – at the end of World War II, when he was an infant, Schoenborn’s parents fled to Austria from Czechoslovakia – and that he felt pained at the unrecognized injustice that thousands of Czechs had suffered. However, he said, both that case and the Arab-Israeli conflict were matters of international law, whereas the chosenness of the Jewish people and their inheritance in the Holy Land were matters of faith that date back to the Bible itself.

Schoenborn also said he hoped the conflict here would be resolved in accordance with international law, and with respect to justice for the Palestinian people. “We are all longing for that solution,” he said. “Yet I am not naive. Conflicts are part of [both sides’] love of the land, and always have been… There is no simple solution.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: The US media has promoted James Cameron as the spokesman for the “The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” but the Judaic press is not so coy. There we find the real force behind the mockery and his impressive power-Zionist, Orthodox Judaic credentials.

… Jacobovici … 54-year-old … Israeli.

… Jacobovici’s … history … (He) … moved to Canada, where he was an activist for Jewish causes (he chaired the North American Jewish Students’ Network; founded and chaired Network Canada, the country’s national union of Jewish students; founded the Canadian Universities Bureau of the Canadian Zionist Federation; and served on the national executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress; was invited to share the dais with prime minister Menachem Begin in 1978, following his announcement of the peace accord with Egypt; was president of the International Congress of the World Union of Jewish Students; and in 1980 – the year the “Jesus tomb” he would investigate a quarter of a century later was discovered – he was awarded the Knesset Medal for his Zionist work on North American campuses, …

Today, the married father of five is an Orthodox Jew, who dines with his Hollywood peers on the kosher food he requests. And Shabbat is sacred. “At the end of the day,” says Jacobovici, adjusting his lushly embroidered kippa crowning a head of nape-length hair, “if you refuse to compromise, others come around.”

“I was born in Israel in 1953 …”

“I came back to Israel for two years to serve in the army …” (“One on One: The cross he bears,” Ruthie Blum, Jerusalem Post, Mar 21, 2007)

John Katz, a former professor of Jewish film at York University, is familiar with Jacobovici’s films and also knows him personally through the synagogue Jacobovici founded. “Simcha becomes more of an advocate in his films for an idea, an argument, than a lot of filmmakers,” he says. “His films don’t have that pasty indecisiveness that a lot of them do.” Jacobovici does achieve a degree of journalistic objectivity because of his Talmudic approach to filmmaking …

“We were encouraged to talk back, we were encouraged to break rules, we were told that there were no rules for us.” (Simcha Jacobovici)

Bill Donahue of “The Catholic League” tells us that none of this is significant–Jacobovici’s rabid adherence to the 2000 year-old Judaic tradition of slander against Jesus Christ has no bearing upon his decision to make a “documentary” which slanders Jesus Christ. Whose interests does Bill Donahue represent?

EDITOR’S NOTE: The US media has promoted James Cameron as the spokesman for the “The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” but the Judaic press is not so coy. There we find the real force behind the mockery and his impressive power-Zionist, Orthodox Judaic credentials.

… Jacobovici … 54-year-old … Israeli.

… Jacobovici’s … history … (He) … moved to Canada, where he was an activist for Jewish causes (he chaired the North American Jewish Students’ Network; founded and chaired Network Canada, the country’s national union of Jewish students; founded the Canadian Universities Bureau of the Canadian Zionist Federation; and served on the national executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress; was invited to share the dais with prime minister Menachem Begin in 1978, following his announcement of the peace accord with Egypt; was president of the International Congress of the World Union of Jewish Students; and in 1980 – the year the “Jesus tomb” he would investigate a quarter of a century later was discovered – he was awarded the Knesset Medal for his Zionist work on North American campuses, …

Today, the married father of five is an Orthodox Jew, who dines with his Hollywood peers on the kosher food he requests. And Shabbat is sacred. “At the end of the day,” says Jacobovici, adjusting his lushly embroidered kippa crowning a head of nape-length hair, “if you refuse to compromise, others come around.”

“I was born in Israel in 1953 …”

“I came back to Israel for two years to serve in the army …” (“One on One: The cross he bears,” Ruthie Blum, Jerusalem Post, Mar 21, 2007)

John Katz, a former professor of Jewish film at York University, is familiar with Jacobovici’s films and also knows him personally through the synagogue Jacobovici founded. “Simcha becomes more of an advocate in his films for an idea, an argument, than a lot of filmmakers,” he says. “His films don’t have that pasty indecisiveness that a lot of them do.” Jacobovici does achieve a degree of journalistic objectivity because of his Talmudic approach to filmmaking …

“We were encouraged to talk back, we were encouraged to break rules, we were told that there were no rules for us.” (Simcha Jacobovici)

Bill Donahue of “The Catholic League” tells us that none of this is significant–Jacobovici’s rabid adherence to the 2000 year-old Judaic tradition of slander against Jesus Christ has no bearing upon his decision to make a “documentary” which slanders Jesus Christ. Whose interests does Bill Donahue represent?

EDITOR’S NOTE: The US media has promoted James Cameron as the spokesman for the “The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” but the Judaic press is not so coy. There we find the real force behind the mockery and his impressive power-Zionist, Orthodox Judaic credentials.

… Jacobovici … 54-year-old … Israeli.

… Jacobovici’s … history … (He) … moved to Canada, where he was an activist for Jewish causes (he chaired the North American Jewish Students’ Network; founded and chaired Network Canada, the country’s national union of Jewish students; founded the Canadian Universities Bureau of the Canadian Zionist Federation; and served on the national executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress; was invited to share the dais with prime minister Menachem Begin in 1978, following his announcement of the peace accord with Egypt; was president of the International Congress of the World Union of Jewish Students; and in 1980 – the year the “Jesus tomb” he would investigate a quarter of a century later was discovered – he was awarded the Knesset Medal for his Zionist work on North American campuses, …

Today, the married father of five is an Orthodox Jew, who dines with his Hollywood peers on the kosher food he requests. And Shabbat is sacred. “At the end of the day,” says Jacobovici, adjusting his lushly embroidered kippa crowning a head of nape-length hair, “if you refuse to compromise, others come around.”

“I was born in Israel in 1953 …”

“I came back to Israel for two years to serve in the army …” (“One on One: The cross he bears,” Ruthie Blum, Jerusalem Post, Mar 21, 2007)

John Katz, a former professor of Jewish film at York University, is familiar with Jacobovici’s films and also knows him personally through the synagogue Jacobovici founded. “Simcha becomes more of an advocate in his films for an idea, an argument, than a lot of filmmakers,” he says. “His films don’t have that pasty indecisiveness that a lot of them do.” Jacobovici does achieve a degree of journalistic objectivity because of his Talmudic approach to filmmaking …

“We were encouraged to talk back, we were encouraged to break rules, we were told that there were no rules for us.” (Simcha Jacobovici)

Bill Donahue of “The Catholic League” tells us that none of this is significant–Jacobovici’s rabid adherence to the 2000 year-old Judaic tradition of slander against Jesus Christ has no bearing upon his decision to make a “documentary” which slanders Jesus Christ. Whose interests does Bill Donahue represent?